KINKS OF ALL KINDS 



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or with a large blanket pin which 

 may be punched through the cloth- 

 ing on any part of the anatomy, 

 which is not particularly good for 

 the clothing. But the trouble with 

 both these is that one can only 

 manipulate two fingers inside 

 them and this with difficulty and 

 danger from being cut. These 

 things always bothered me, but 

 the greatest argument against 

 them to my mind is that they are 

 not convenient, and thereby re- 

 quire too many operations or 

 movements, a condition which is 

 not to be desired when you are 

 standing above a likely hole, fish- 

 ing down stream as one usually 

 must in this kind of fishing. 



Well, I decided I'd had enough 

 of this trouble and got busy. The 

 sketches enclosed, I think, show 



about everything except the ma- 

 terials used, and this is where the 

 beauty of the "kink" comes in. It 

 consists of one flat type tobacco 

 box, two large size brass count- 

 ing house fasteners with the round 

 heads removed ; and the outer end 

 of the main spring of an old 

 clock (though most any piece of 

 flat spring steel would do) riveted 

 to the cover to keep it closed. The 

 brass fasteners are inserted 

 through two rectangular holes in 

 the bottom of the box and se- 

 curely soldered on the inside of 

 the box (a rough job is good 

 enough to hold it). These easily 

 slip between the reeds of the creel 

 cover and when the prongs are 

 bent over, hold the box flat and 

 tight to the creel cover. The box 

 is mounted so that it opens away 



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